hi. just wanted to let everyone know about a growing geocaching community in the virtual world called Second Life (secondlife.com) Most of us are geocachers...
As adamant at Jeremy has been in the past about the commercialization of geocaching, I cannot believe that he is now stooping to Google ads on his website. I...
Hmm. It had been awhile since I'd hit the site. I see what you mean. It's really a wonder that those haven't appeared before now. There are people out there...
I haven't seen any ads recently, and unless they were added since last night, it's only for non-paying members. In Jeremy's defense, the cost of running a...
I did not notice the adds. Of course after reading the link that Seth! put up I can see why. I am a PM and I run firefox with noscript. If it will stop the...
I agree, a couple of little ads that get sent to people who are using the site for free seems like a small price to pay. I get pop ups and adds from all of...
Not sure if I'm missing something - but the only place I found Google ads were on the "Getting Started" page, under the small set of Geocaching ads that are...
I have to agree with this. I didnt notice it until I was logging my sons caches last night (free account). If these ads help out where people dont want to pay,...
We need to remember,the purpose of business in America is to generate a profit for the owners. I wonder what the response would be if suddenly the site shut...
... Don't confuse the goals of Groundspeak, Inc., with the needs of the geocaching hobby itself. Open source and distributed processing would be ways to...
Thanks Scout, for wording it so elegantly. I know as well as the next guy that the efforts of gc.com are not cheap. And I understand that Jeremy has every...
Geez you guys need to get out more. Apparently you all watch public TV only? Just have commercials when you feel its time to beg and then hit up gov't cause...
From what I can see you can go for a long time without ever seeing another ugly google ad on gc.com and all you have to do is break out the wallet and pay the...
The ads are very minor in relation to most of the websites out there. In fact, many of them advertise even when you ARE a paid member. Remember that the...
Anyone who has run a real subscription business knows that overtime, subscriptions dont tend to keep people long term. For those looking at a subscription...
Click here <http://img.geocaching.com/cache/5a9b9b3c-f6de-4382-b9a9-fb9b6624b14f.jp\ g> to see the placement of the ads (front and center and near the top) on...
... So the Groundspeak site shuts down tomorrow in a big puff of green smoke. Poof! Big deal! Someone else would build a site for listing caches, and users...
... Early days? Has the dream died already? :-) Some of us still want an open, distributed database for cache data. Not just for reliability, security, and...
I really have to disagree with the idea that geocaching.com shutting down would be a good thing. In this country, it seems like everything has to have 2-3...
I get the fact that geocaching is a hobby that is early on in it's developement and all and that GC.com has a very good database and is what is currently being...
Except for the database isn't really HIS proprietary information. It's actually the information of the community...Unfortunately the community forgets this. ...
... Not only did he take the time and effort to create his Web site, but he had lawyers to threaten lawsuits against others with a different vision for the...
When I first started Geocaching, I looked around for othersites which had 'geocaches'. Not one of the sites offered the amount of caches that geocaching.com...
All: I find the comparisons that are getting tossed about quite interesting. Running a web site like geocaching.com is not at all analogous to creating ...
In reference to the question on the lawsuit - from Wikipedia - article "Geocaching": In the United States, where most geocaching services are hosted,...
... Agreed. But there could be open source P2P software that would allow distributing the data so that the Web site itself is less important than the P2P...
... P.S. You wouldn't necessarily have to eliminate the profit motive, either. Establish standards for the cache records (e.g., GPX) and anyone with a...
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